Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
UK PM Johnson’s treaty-breaking Brexit laws face defeat in parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to suffer a heavy defeat in parliament's upper chamber on Monday over laws allowing him to breach Britain's EU exit treaty - a proposal whic...
Nov 09, 2020
Bolivia’s Evo Morales heads home after socialist president sworn in
By Daniel Ramos and Miguel Lobianco VILLAZON, Bolivia (Reuters) - Former longtime Bolivian leader Evo Morales crossed the border back into Bolivia on Monday, ending a year in exile, after a close ally...
Nov 09, 2020
China says inclusion of Taiwan in WHO meeting would be ‘illegal’
GENEVA (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Chen Xu told a World Health Organization (WHO) ministerial meeting on Monday that a proposal to include Taiwan as an observer was "illegal a...
Nov 09, 2020
Guatemala Mayan villagers tell of harrowing escape from deadly landslide
By Sofia Menchu CHICUZ, Guatemala (Reuters) - Matilde Ical Chen was toasting tortillas over a wood fire for the midday meal when the landslide ripped through the Guatemalan Mayan indigenous village of...
Nov 09, 2020
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara wins third term, final results show
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara won a third term with 94.27% of the vote, final results showed on Monday, after an election that opposition parties largely boycotted and di...
Nov 09, 2020
Turkish opposition says minister’s resignation amounts to ‘state crisis’
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition said on Monday that the resignation of Finance Minister Berat Albayrak in a statement on Instagram was unprecedented and amounted to a "state crisis", while...
Nov 09, 2020
English judge blocks $6.6 billion Brazil lawsuit against BHP over burst dam
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - A 5.0 billion pound ($6.6 billion) English lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP has been struck out, in a blow to a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant ...
Nov 09, 2020
Lithuania to support ‘those fighting for freedom’ in Taiwan
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's new ruling coalition agreed on Monday to commit the incoming government to support "those fighting for freedom" in Taiwan, threatening to hurt the smal...
Nov 09, 2020
Latin America’s children face major education setbacks from COVID-19: UNICEF
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Latin American children have lost four times more days of education from the coronavirus pandemic than students in the rest of the world, a UNICEF report on Monday showed, w...
Nov 09, 2020
Israel tests passengers from Denmark for new mutated coronavirus
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms, and ask them to self-isolate. The health...
Nov 09, 2020
